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Biography
Kunikazu     
Kunikazu signature
Japanese Characters:
Kunikazu kanji
   
Names:
Isshusai [or Ichijusai] Kunikazu; Utagawa Kunikazu
   
Dates:
active circa 1849-1867
   
Seals:
Kunikazu; toshidama circle seal

Comments:

Surnames Utagawa and Sasaki; possibly studied with Utagawa Kunisada in Edo(?); should not be confused with another contemporaneous artist signing Kunikazu but with a different second character (active circa 1856-1858; also a pupil of Toyokuni III).

Osaka print designer who designed some of the better okubi-e portraits leading into the final period of kamigata-e.

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